Supreme Court litigator gets 6 years in prison for tax evasion case after gambling millions on poker

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Goldstein spent years gambling money he didn’t have, his lawyers say.

“He is not wealthy enough to sustain the losses of the billionaires he has played against, and he is not good enough at poker to win at the rate of professionals,” they wrote.

Prosecutors say Goldstein’s crimes were motivated by “pure, uninhibited greed” and his “obvious disdain for continue reading …